Word Meanings - GALLICIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To conform to the French mode or idiom.

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• CONFORMABLE
  1. Corresponding in form, character, opinions, etc.; similar; like; consistent; proper or suitable; --usually followed by to. The fragments of Sappho give us a taste of her way of writing perfectly conformable with that character. Addison.
• CONFORMIST
  One who conforms or complies; esp., one who conforms to the Church of England, or to the Established Church, as distinguished from a dissenter or nonconformist. A cheeful conformist to your judgment. Jer.Taylor.
• IDIOMORPHOUS
  Apperaing in distinct crystals; -- said of the mineral constituents of a rock. (more info) 1. Having a form of its own.
• CONFORMITY
  1. Correspondence in form, manner, or character; resemblance; agreement; congruity; -- followed by to, with, or between. By our conformity to God. Tillotson. The end of all religion is but to draw us to a conformity with God. Dr. H.More.
• IDIOM
  1. The syntactical or structural form peculiar to any language; the genius or cast of a language. Idiom may be employed loosely and figuratively as a synonym of language or dialect, but in its proper sense it signifies the totality of the general
• IDIOMORPHIC
  Idiomorphous.
• FRENCH
  Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants. French bean , the common kidney bean . -- French berry , the berry of a species of buckthorn (Rhamnus catharticus), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment. -- French casement See French
• CONFORMATOR
  An apparatus for taking the conformation of anything, as of the head for fitting a hat, or, in craniometry, finding the largest horizontal area of the head.
• CONFORMATION
  1. The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity. The conformation of our hearts and lives to the duties of true religion and morality. I. Watts. 2. The state of being conformed; agreement; hence; structure, as depending on
• FRENCHIFY
  To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize. Burke.
• IDIOMUSCULAR
  Applied to a semipermanent contraction of a muscle, produced by a mechanical irritant.
• CONFORMABLENESS
  The quality of being conformable; conformability.
• FRENCHMAN
  A native or one of the people of France.
• IDIOMATIC; IDIOMATICAL
  Of or pertaining to, or conforming to, the mode of expression peculiar to a language; as, an idiomatic meaning; an idiomatic phrase. -- Id`i*o*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.
• CONFORM
  Of the same form; similar in import; conformable. Bacon. Care must be taken that the interpretation be every way conform to the analogy of faith. Bp.Hall.
• CONFORMATE
  Having the same form.
• CONFORMABLY
  With conformity or in conformity; suitably; agreeably. Conformably to the law and nature of God. Bp. Beveridge.
• CONFORMABILITY
  1. The state of being conformable. 2. The parallelism of two sets of strata which are in contact.
• FRENCHISM
  A French mode or characteristic; an idiom peculiar to the French language. Earle.
• CONFORMER
  One who conforms; one who complies with established forms or doctrines.
• MALCONFORMATION
  Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.
• INCONFORMITY
  Want of conformity; nonconformity.
• NONCONFORMING
  Not conforming; declining conformity; especially, not conforming to the established church of a country.
• UNCONFORMIST
  A nonconformist.
• BROMIDIOM
  A conventional comment or saying, such as those characteristic of bromides.
• NONCONFORMIST
  One who does not conform to an established church; especially, one who does not conform to the established church of England; a dissenter.
• SUBCONFORMABLE
  Partially conformable.
• HYPIDIOMORPHIC
  Partly idiomorphic; -- said of rock a portion only of whose constituents have a distinct crystalline form. -- Hy*pid`i*o*mor"phic*al*ly, adv.
• MALECONFORMATION
  Malconformation.
• DISCONFORMITY
  Want of conformity or correspondence; inconsistency; disagreement. Those . . . in some disconformity to ourselves. Milton. Disagreement and disconformity betwixt the speech and the conception of the mind. Hakewill.